What kind of academic profile are CTCL schools looking for?
With 40 individual schools and a range of admission policies and procedures within the group, it’s impossible to create one list of criteria necessary for admission to all 40 CTCL schools. However, it is safe to say that each CTCL school looks for students who will be a good match—intellectually and personally—with their campus. In reviewing an application, the admission committees at each CTCL school seek evidence that a student is ready and able to succeed in their academic programs as shown not only by challenging course work, particularly in the most recent two years of high school, but also through letters of recommendation and the student’s own written statements. Most, but not all, of the CTCL schools do require students to submit SAT or ACT test scores; however, those numbers alone never determine a student’s admissibility. Rather, CTCL schools look at the whole student, giving significant consideration to a student’s ability to balance their academic life with other activities
